One of the less noticed features of the Virginia Way is the long-running tendency of the commonwealth’s leaders to conduct ...

Traveling more than 1,000 miles over the course of five days, Courthouse News journalists visited 25 Virginia circuit courts to report on civil complaints filed in those courthouses. Their goal was to ...

Virginia’s online blackout for court records challenged in federal court While a Virginia lawyer can tap on a keyboard and get almost any state court document, journalists and all others must travel ...

Virginians will have a right to see many old police investigative files for the first time after Gov. Ralph Northam signed a bill into law this week changing the state’s public records law. T… ...

RCFP attorneys are challenging government officials’ broad interpretation of the “working papers” exemption of Virginia’s public records law.

States do not violate the U.S. Constitution when their public records laws prevent out-of-state residents from accessing government records, a unanimous Supreme Court ruled on Monday. The court in ...

In January, the Virginia Department of Corrections restricted public access to execution records. NPR is now publishing a selection of those secret files.

The Virginia NAACP plans to sue Gov. Glenn Youngkin's administration to obtain public records on the state's office for diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI).